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Famous Unknowingly Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Unknowingly poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous unknowingly poems. These examples illustrate what a famous unknowingly poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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by Hardy, Thomas
...e I framed weak phantasies of Thee, 
 O Willer masked and dumb! 
 Who makest Life become, - 
As though by labouring all-unknowingly, 
 Like one whom reveries numb. 

How much of consciousness informs Thy will 
 Thy biddings, as if blind, 
 Of death-inducing kind, 
Nought shows to us ephemeral ones who fill 
 But moments in Thy mind. 

Perhaps Thy ancient rote-restricted ways 
 Thy ripening rule transcends; 
 That listless effort tends 
To grow percipient with advance ...Read more of this...



by Keats, John
...dumb,
Than speak against this ardent listlessness:
For I have ever thought that it might bless
The world with benefits unknowingly;
As does the nightingale, upperched high,
And cloister'd among cool and bunched leaves--
She sings but to her love, nor e'er conceives
How tiptoe Night holds back her dark-grey hood.
Just so may love, although 'tis understood
The mere commingling of passionate breath,
Produce more than our searching witnesseth:
What I know not: but who, of me...Read more of this...

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